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Jesuit Arizona Observatory

Clip: Season 8 | 6m 16s

Over the years, Catholic leaders have often expressed their opposition to certain uses of science, such as anything that threatens human life. But the Church has no objection to basic scientific research itself — far from it. That work is honored as trying to understand what God created — in the case of an observatory in Arizona, the entire visible universe.